This post may contain affiliate links. It’s perfect for birthdays, parties, and holidays! What is this chocolate vegan cake made of? For those who are not sugar-free, unrefined sugar can be substituted for the dates, and vegan birthday cake are included in the recipe card below.
The cake ingredients include whole-wheat flour, unsweetened baking cocoa powder, baking soda and powder, applesauce, vanilla, and vinegar. What makes it taste sweet is Date Paste! Dreena’s recipe calls for coconut sugar or other unrefined sugar, so I decided to see what would happen if I tweaked a few ingredients and substituted dates for the sugar. I have to tell you that I was amazed that the frosting tasted every bit as good as Dreena’s original!